Cuando la multiplicidad se despliega en el tiempo. Memorias indígenas en espacios desmarcados en la Comarca Andina del Paralelo 42º, Patagonia Argentina

Abstract

The Comarca Andina del Paralelo 42° region, in Patagonia, Argentina, was portrayed by the hegemonic discourses as a region without indigenous origin. This article seeks to delve into a methodological postulate that –for these cases– intends to address the history of the indigenous community from «the periphery»; that is to say, from stories, spaces, places and memoirs a priori ethnically unclaimed. In this regard, I will focus on the analysis of the memoirs and re-te- rritorialisation dynamics operated in spaces apparently ethnically “unclaimed”, including abandoned plantations of pine previously wor- ked on by a timber consurtium operating in the region between 1970 and 1990. After the attempted eviction of a peasant woman in an area histori- cally belonging to her family and where plots had been allocated for the above mentioned timber plantations; these apparently neutral and eth- nically unclaimed spaces were, in this process of resistance to eviction, taking new historical meaning. These forested areas became places for enunciating territorial dispossession by the indigenous community and poor farmers, who contributed to their entwinement with other spaces of similar significance.